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...which we take part in the activities that a real football school would take part in? Big time football schools like Michigan and Michigan State’s newspapers do it, so why not Harvard and Yale? Let’s bring back the tradition that stood for so many years. The archives suggest that the Crimson-Daily News game was even televised for a number of years. I’m not talking about recreating some friendly game where the loser says “Oh well, at least we don’t live in Cambridge...
...Obama’s campaign had garnered such strong support among young voters because of the campaign’s “idealized viewpoints.” Enthusiasm among the party faithful did not abate even as the sun set. Steven Rozenski, a third year GSAS student, who stood outside Quincy House armed with large Obama-Biden signs, said he hoped to recruit last-minute support as potential voters filed into the polling station. His small coterie of fellow supporters mirrored statements of support expressed by passers-by throughout...
...free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, watched CNN’s coverage of the election at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. Below the forum’s big screen, life-size cut-outs of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stood next to a map showing the states each candidate had won—the Obama cut-out posed for substantially more photo ops over the course of the evening. Before the results had even begun to trickle in, CNN attracted viewers’ attention by showcasing a new technology that...
...early 2007, John McCain sat down to breakfast at a back table in the Senate Dining Room with Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last White House chief of staff and one of the few big-name Republicans to have supported McCain rather than George W. Bush in 2000. It stood to reason that the fabled Washington wise man would back McCain again. Instead, Duberstein said he was troubled by McCain's efforts to ingratiate himself with the conservative wing of their party. He cited a fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University...
...lawn at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa never filled to capacity. A space that might have held 2,000 or more, stood about one quarter empty. And many of those present took poorly to McCain's praise of Obama's achievement. They booed at times, and one loud man swore at the stage, evoking the excretions of various farm animals. The fireworks the campaign had purchased to celebrate victory never fired...